The Irish

btw i blame ilx for my new habit of offhandedly calling mrs mac a coward for the smallest reason

xp to gyac it is weirdly hard to find a picture of Mr Tatyo giving a thumbs-up, particularly since that's one of the few hand gestures within his grasp - but imagine that here.

xp if ilx can hear my perpetually tired & cracked voice we can hear yours

xxxxp is this a feck vs fuck thing?

xxp the only Tayto I bend my knee to
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The Irish

i believe the discussion about accent variation starts from here in this very thread

The midlands is a lottery

lol now i look at it, they didn't even bother with midlands- otm

drogheda would rival limerick if it weren't so comical, i mean how do you talk like that naturally.

When I say re my accent not being strong, I don’t mean the Irishness - I spend my life spelling out my name to people whenever I have to phone someone and full of “can you repeat that? the lines bad” - but the regional tags. Though I can thank my parents and my speech impediment (rip) for that.

xp you wont, the link is broke

pollagh is pronounced

PULL-a

ffs

at least you have that right

i bytimes ref the former future mrs mac, she was a pollagh girl so i got to know the place but twas never my neck of the island and ive less reason than ever to like it now

reupload the clip you coward

i will think about it

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wszzowjjfle63w9/Sound%20clip%2028.mp4?dl=0

thats the best i can do im afraid, had to open it outside of whatever dropbox wanted to use fwiw

drop the ? and everything subsequent, maybe

wheres sic when you need him

Haha this is cute! I was sad you didn’t attempt the cat noise yourself. You sound very much of the west but not in that slushy over-sibilant way some of the accents can tend to. Overall impression was young Bosco presenter, but a normal one, not one of the lads in adult dungarees. Also, you are clearly a v doting uncle.

^cosine

we moved around a bit, sher

and she was a cute kid, once

also if anything my cat noise is better than the automated one

drop the ? and everything subsequent, maybe

no you're grand

Did you go to Newgrange? I went there as a child but my only abiding memory is my dad getting sick outside. Would love to do winter solstice but imagine it’s incredibly difficult.

the lucky few are chosen by lottery, but it's always overcast anyway

https://www.newgrange.com/solstice-lottery.htm

You should definitely go though. It's a magical place (and they do a simulation of the solstice effect for every tour)

Nothing could explain the Irish and Russian mentalities better, and why we get on so well together, than the fact that Moscow “Irish Week” lasts for eleven days. pic.twitter.com/7ModMpUkv5

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) March 9, 2020

Guinness is a drink widely perceived as being “Irish”, in reality this couldn’t be further from the truth. Arthur Guinness was a unionist and a British informer working against the United Irishmen in 1798. In 1913, the Guinness family donated £100,000 to the UVF. pic.twitter.com/v2H5wNrwlG

— Imperialist Watch Ireland (@ImperialistWl) March 10, 2020

and still the use of the "" around irish there makes me want ta hint them down and beat them bloody

down with Guinness

bring back Breó!

I unironically liked Breo. Pretty sure I’m alone.

James Jeremiah Murphy was a nationalist

It’s a peak Celtic Tiger product, I only remember the ads. The Irish Times article about it has this description of the thinking behind the name.

Breo is a Celtic word meaning glow. "After some consultation with Bord na Gaeilge and a number of fluent Irish speakers, Breo was chosen as the name for this new beer as it reflects the original attributes, colour and look of the product."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zigVHK5O38

béarnaíbréoige

I thought of this pun and was distracted by events. Surely Beirní Breó?

I find it bizarre that James Nesbitt’s Wikipedia page makes no mention of that ad

its an interpretative language gyac imo

try searching under shamie nesbitt tb

Never drank a Breó

I wish you could still get Kilkenny here, you can still get it abroad

Breo had, I think, quinine in it. Like a pint of Harp cut with tonic water.

we're kinda closing down for a bit

not a fan of attacking a taoiseach in these circs but that is a fairly ridiculous announcement

if you close schools you have to lead and announce all non-essential public staff are being told stay home.

cant ask businesses to react and not do so ourselves

strikes me that leaving airport to run according to its own judgement is also a copout

I don’t follow. What did he do?!

Ireland’s taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced the closure of all schools, colleges and childcare facilities from tomorrow as part of a partial lockdown that will apply from 6pm tonight until 29 March.

sounds like chaos if parents still have to go to work

With you now deems. Yeah, that’s a total load of shit.

It'll be fine, they'll just fine one person on every street that is already home and the kids can all stay with them.

sorry, busy here atm for obvious reasons

the half measure seems exactly wrong, is it, basically

and its not me being self serving to note that if you leave it to businesses and eg airport authorities to handle shit without direction, then yr lead becomes more important- leaving our non essential offices (400k odd ppl) open is no leadership at all

can i get assistance here pls

how to grade severity of a pandemic where

you close schools

yet

keep 300k ppl in your purview going in to work

even where the work is non essential

unless you can work from home

which you havent allowed nor set up until now so very few can

oh and also unless we just closed your kids school

in which case we will pay you to stay home and babysit

fuckin messing

Sorry deems. Seems like a mess waiting to happen. You’d imagine the Easter weeks are covered at least but people are probably going to have to sort themselves out cos the government clearly didn’t give a fuck.

i think closing schools was the right step, but you wanna see the head honchos flying around all over town today reacting

like.....lads ..... was this not discussed?

i havent been given access for remote working, so clearly im non essential. but somebody somewhere has decided that optics dictate that ill be commuting in during the pandemic regardless.

jesus waitll i get our useless union in front of me. palestine me hole lads.

You're a designated survivor for me Deems, that must count for something.

O'er here they decided the opposite: everyone should work from home but schools will not be closed. Lol.

and not to begrudge parents the time because theyve been dropped in it too,but....like....who is going to pay private sector parents to stay home?

optics are shite tbh, at least if they had told every possible non-essential officer to stay home they could have looked businesses in the eye and said- as an employer, we're leading here.